Readiness assessment
Assess identity, purpose, feasibility, budget, governance, accounting, safeguarding, evidence, communications, and reporting, then set a prioritised gap plan and reassessment date.
Identify · Develop · Deploy · Sustain · Multiply
Lay Links Giving
Prepare your project for responsible support
Readiness support helps a fundraiser organise the evidence, controls, and reporting needed for a credible request. Completing a service does not itself approve a public giving listing.
Readiness areas
Project feasibility
Clarify the problem, proposed response, delivery assumptions, dependencies, capacity, milestones, and realistic timeframe.
Budgeting and accounting readiness
Develop a line-item budget, assumptions, procurement approach, financial controls, records, reporting calendar, and change process.
Governance readiness
Document ownership, approvals, conflicts, roles, decision rights, agreements, complaints, and accountability.
Safeguarding and risk readiness
Identify beneficiary, child, privacy, fraud, delivery, reputational, and operational risks with proportionate controls and escalation.
Case for support
Shape a clear public summary, detailed proposal, budget narrative, evidence base, consented media, donor questions, and reporting commitments.
Reporting support
Set milestone, financial, evidence, donor-update, variance, incident, completion, and lessons-reporting arrangements.
A readiness record is not a giving decision
Readiness work can identify improvements, evidence gaps, dependencies, and risks. A project proceeds to a separate giving review with independent status, scope, conditions, and approval authority.
How readiness support works
- 1Apply using an existing private project intake.
- 2Lay Links assesses scope, eligibility, priorities, and professional boundaries.
- 3An approved adviser accepts the assignment after a conflict declaration.
- 4The applicant and adviser agree responsibilities, dates, deliverables, and evidence-gated tasks.
- 5Qualified legal, tax, accounting, audit, safeguarding, or technical matters are referred appropriately.
- 6Lay Links confirms service completion separately from any Giving review or public listing decision.